Blue Cavern

Hi my friends!!!!!!

I think we have spoken about it before but can´t find the thread...Is there a list with smurfy sharpeners sold by Schleich???It is really easy to put a smurf on the sharpener so...I would like to know which smurfs were really made by Schleich.

Hi Joaquin!

Dom told us this in a thread:

"According to what I have heard from a German smurf dealer last year, it all started out in UK either in the late 1970's or in the early 1980's. There was a British company, which produced the sharpener sockels for about two or three years. This certain company started gluing smurfs on that certain sockels, since they had bought a semi-license from I.M.P.S. Sometime later, this enterprise became bankrupt, there were more than 50,000 sockels left, which were then sold to another company from Hong Kong, which would then put other smurfs on the sockels, without explicit permission from I.M.P.S."

"Hi guys,
I just wanted to let you know that I have been talking again to the German seller on Saturday and I was given the following information on the sharpeners.

Only the first twenty pvc smurfs, which additionally have to derive from the first production series manufactured by Schleich or Bully were used for the official licensed sharpeners. After the bankruptcy of the British company, other companies as well private sellers started off gluing other smurfs as well as other PVCs on the sharpeners and sell them."

I think there are some in the Schleich catalogs as well, aren't there?

Thanks for the info, Maureen

This is what I really would like to know: which sharpeners do appear at catalogues of Schleich

I think they don´t show all of them Joaquin.

But according to my notes it is like this:

1979: article: 52000 4 different: Mech, Normal, Laughing, Crying.
1980: same as 1979
1980: Poster: article: 52004: Shiver, 52011: Laughing, 52016: Judge, 52017: Vanity, Note that they just have 52 and then the number for the smurf as in the end of the articlenumbers. So this year it could be 52001-52020??
1981: 20 different?? same articlenumbers. Pictured clown and Pupil
1982: same as 1981
1983: changed to higher sharpeners. Article: 52400 pictured secretary
1984: same but pictures Pupil and schoolgirl
1985: same but pictures dentist and aerobic
1986: same but pictures mermaid and carpenter
1991-1993 article: 54511 5 models?? pictured CB radio and cowboy.

But already, as Dom wrote, in 1978 they were sold in UK.

here you see that also the lute can be found.

My guess is that 52001-52020 can be found in the same orders as the articlenumbers on the smurfs???

But alreay in 1981 the Bully Pupil appeared. Probably because of that the sharpeners are often used in school so it is the perfect smurf for that??

And I don´t think that many smurfs can be found with the lower sharpener since they stopped with that already in 1982. That could be the 20 ones Dom writes about???

recently, I saw this picture

Lia

Nice Lia!

Exactly the same as the 1980 poster and booklet.

Looks like a UK box??

I have that box...got it from England

Thanks for the info...As always, very very useful

And very nice box, Lia...never seen it before

Have a look what this sharpeners collector has in smurfy section: even cnts, fakes, supers like the F1 cars etc...I agree: many many people used all kind of smurfs and put them on the sharpeners

http://www.agirones.com/index.asp?idiom ... u=26&hotel

Incredible collection!

btw, great Maureen that you own that box!

From the sharpeners, Dutch people will laugh when the see the tennissmurf)))

Lia

Why dutch people will laugh???

Because the biggest Dutch festivity is "sinterklaas" ( 5 december) and he has always the same object as that tennissmurf

Hi LIa

Yes very funny............a shame this guy is costing me a lot of money

Now Joaquin from a lot of sharpers i have seen in the past i had doubts, but some of the ones on the website are 100% selfmade.........
It is nice to see but super smurfs on a sharper they don't even fit proper

Tintin

And I don´t think that many smurfs can be found with the lower sharpener since they stopped with that already in 1982. That could be the 20 ones Dom writes about???

I wish I knew more about it.
@Lia, Moey and Joaquin: I highly appreciate your pictures.
@André: I highly appreciate your researches.

If someone has some extra cash....

http://www.ebay.nl/itm/310351703265?ssP ... 1438.l2649

Very nice one, Lia!!!I love it

Be careful, look at the description! I think it describes something different. The display is great but very very expensive!

I know! But he shows 4 pictures, so I assume , he sells this box
( but better ask him to be sure )